everything. is a big. international peace envoy for syria warns the nation will descend into hell unless the opposition and the government start talking. to the rebels preconditions are leading to a dead end. for a showcase of iran's naval and military might all root causes international nerves but tehran insists it's only proving it can defend itself from foreign attack. one million euros worth of holiday spirit paris shines bright with festive lights while millions of french people battling poverty are left in the dark across the cross country. from putin's return to the kremlin to

bursts of public dissent a look at how the changes on russia's political scene in twenty twelve will be remembered by those who covered them here in r.t. . twenty four hours a day you're watching our. the international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions for the conflict a political process all hell and russia's foreign minister at a meeting with me in moscow said the syrian opposition is refusal to talk with the government only paves the way for further bloodshed but. the spin off has been following the talks for us now so what exactly do circular of and. see as

a solution to serious crisis and what's the main stumbling block. of the main stumbling block at the moment is that neither side of this conflict is the willing to compromise the rebels say that our side has to go i thought himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country moscow says no one's able to persuade him to do so well neither the. opposition are willing to put their weapons down. if. you know the only alternative is. really help. the political process them we have got all of us to work seriously for a political. mr brahimi also said that this should be a syrian led political process we should be based on the agreements reached earlier

in geneva and while without to be compromised and without the will to talk to each other and to negotiate obviously this political process so far is not working out all the opposition just rejects any possibilities to negotiate with the authorities and also rejected talking with the moscow which it actually accuses of supporting assad and has asked moscow to apologize for it was assumed she was russia's foreign minister had to say on this. i understand that mr hottie of his probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat but we were ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premises that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and

if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy if you will meet our representatives without preconditions lush on notice you persist. the foreign minister was just talking about the leader of the syrian opposition who was elected just recently so without debate or without the will to negotiate and compromise both russia's foreign minister and international envoy on syria said that it's up to the international community to try to persuade both sides to get to sit down to the negotiations stable but according to russia's foreign minister most western states have obviously taken the side of the opposition are and are actually persuading it to continue fighting by giving it more political and financial support while violence . she continues to ask oh wait there have been more terrorist attacks rebels have been also targeting government. troops while government forces have also been

responding with more shelling. for your pissing off thanks for that update. but iran's a navy has deployed in the strait of hormuz a key shipping route carrying one fifth of the world's oil showcasing terence military capabilities with maneuvers device to test combat ships submarines reconnaissance new mid range missile iran has repeatedly warned it could block the strait if attacked the current drills come amid growing pressure over iran's nuclear program sanctions imposed by the u.s. and the e.u. piling up global diplomacy specialist. says the purpose of the exercises is not to show hostility but a readiness to defend the country's borders. for the past thirty two years or more the west the sympathy united states has waged a covert war against iran so you want has been preparing itself and demonstrating

its nest to defend itself i don't believe that iran would ever take action if we see more mabel military exercises right now it's because the media is focusing on iran whereas inside. earlier this month there was operation lucky mariner with twenty seven countries participating. although a lot of them were of service and they were all the way in the persian gulf it was territory in the media assignment which when you run demonstrates its readiness to defend its sovereignty and its national interest then there is the media focus on iraq. well forget anonymity there's one place you need id to use the internet that's china when you lose it says to everyone that must use their real name online reports r.t. dot com. plus the survey that says christmas for christians is no longer about the

birth of jesus and to kill santa either. moscow's ban on the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will come into effect on new year's day the bill containing the measure was signed into law by president putin on friday just nation also includes travel and financial sanctions for certain americans as well as further restrictions for noncommercial organizations working inside russia is in retaliation for washington's list of russian officials which it links to the death of most of you know it's key in two thousand and nine russian studies and history prefer. stephen cohen from new york and princeton university's says he's never held any allusion is about the two countries or nations. like you do. there is an old russian saying

we're friends are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and in washington when they pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstanding politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they had that they feel all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's internal politics most recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy that began twenty years ago with

the soviet union the fundamental american policy toward russia has not changed so it's ridiculous to call lama soft on moscow i mean just because two leaders get together as they always do and say we are friends it doesn't mean anything in reality yours is that the partnership we need between washington and moscow to make the world safer for all of us has not existed since the soviet union ended and we may be farther from it today today as a result partially of this orphanage then we have been in twenty years. what r.t. dot com we have more coverage of moscow's ban on u.s. adoptions including the full text of russia's reply to washington's magnitsky act online for that and much more. the world's most visited city is sparkling paris spent

a record amount on festive lights to put everyone in the holiday spirit but the millions hit by financial hardship aren't celebrating the sight of millions of euros being splashed on the decorations ships he reports. it is beyond any doubt that in the daytime paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but after dark the french capital lives up to its other name the city of lights. many parisians regard to the launch of the christmas elimination as one of the most important events of any year. this year in central paris alone the famous installing christmas lights wasn't cheap at christmas elimination because they're on a one million euros it shop on the shelves it is a is contributing to the christmas lighting depending on the number of trees they have in front of their of their shop eighty percent money money from the day from the shops of the shows it easy for twenty percent this money of the city hall but

the budget has gone up by a third across the whole country in a year where the average person has struggled financially the authorities say they're splashing out the extra millions to help people forget how little they have . but there is crisis there is financial difficulty people have less money to spend so we have to create a festive atmosphere to give them back the will to buy and celebration it's clear that you're in crises in developed countries people tend to economize and spend less money so it's important to avoid this negative spiral of the economy and the courage people to go ahead and spend a bit. but what if you have nothing to spend françoise cares little about how her city looks or what the biggest christmas sale hits are for her the whole day is all about bringing her terminally ill daughter to numerous charity events over the festive period at the gym and my daughter has leave a cancer her medication is being paid by social security but i have to pay the

doctor out of my own pocket we are poor and i cannot afford that it's unacceptable they spend so much money on beauty well we are neglected. and. there were hundreds like france was at this charity event alone a recent poll concerning poverty in france produced some shocking figures we have. them all do we wanted to ask the french if they felt poor or felt they were heading that way only eleven percent of the french consider themselves being below the poverty line but thirty seven percent say they feel they are becoming poor the french feel that their country is slipping into decadence and social stratification is taking place. christmas is many things to many people some admired the atmosphere or make you healthy you wrote for others it's about finding a means of survival regardless of the financial state all hope that next year will be better than the previous and who knows maybe those in peril now may join those

enjoying the spectacular eliminations come next christmas looks the rush of ski r.t. reporting from paris i learned while there's a little relief for people in crisis head to countries bankers continue to cut deals triggering shock waves in the global economy that's what artie's likes kaiser exposes this hour. when they exposed the u.s. military killing journalists in iraq from a helicopter that was ok but when they were going to expose bank of america for fraud to suddenly join us holed up in the embassy. across town. when mervyn king in the bank of england was implicated and. market reading scandal suddenly he's gone and they parachute in the central banker from canada mark carney somehow he's got to make that go away that the fact of the bank of england was involved in a massive fraud so they're able to move the pieces of the global banking cartel in

an extraordinary way. as a taste of what's coming your way in a couple of minutes tensions in iran greece's thousands of voice. but the shia led government calling for the country's prime minister to. russia lucian last muffin you know. to take care of myself better last month and my friends are great. people in the big apple what changes there could be in the year ahead after a short break. what

do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you would print future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist scum finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move. ector's to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said to the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you call security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

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talk about more world news stories for you now it's been a turbulent year for russian politics with putin is come back to the kremlin met with opposition rallies plus the riots infamous cathedral performance protest and the court case that followed split russian society well here's how some of the r.t.e. stuff covered it all in twenty twelve remember what happened. presidential election twenty three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and

i mean you come of course live throughout the night here is a great night wasn't the real color was right behind us was me but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way of costume of the houses of thousands of people i was so celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protests rallies in moscow square that it really hit me for the first time when i saw the crowd watching a t.v. truck parked right next to ours another station and i realized how soon was people really turned uncontrollable or was second and held in just as easily chaos rebirth of people trying to get the political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and to some right be dancing in

a cathedral the one thing that was important to get across when we were covering it is people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that you consider when they were looking at the case. when they made a press release about sour interview with president putin the first that he's ever given he's a stirred inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the poster boy case nothing in fact the more challenging it is the point gauging the conversation would be of course not. the big list in my head i want to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the punishment of the pussy riot punk was indeed with hindsight maybe too heavy and some interesting comments to make about that i would have thought about the russian opposition movement one of our big stories of the year the streets are available for protests that is for sure and i think it's good that people are conscious about

politics not politics is not a big deal among most people here in this country would want to be given the change election only be good for society and i think the the authorities reacted with relatively well. in iraq tens of thousands of sunni iraqis have been protesting against the shia led government for a week now demonstrators blocked a key highway west of baghdad demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister a sunni muslims used to control the country until saddam hussein was toppled u.s. led invasion ten years ago the current sunni demonstration was seen by some as a prelude to an arab spring style the rising return of sectarian violence. in iraq in american blogger thinks u.s. interference in iraq played a big part in the seeds of today's trouble. unfortunately is another example of. u.s.

interventions decades after the us invaded the country and destroyed it and promised everyone on the wall down in iraq that it will build a functional democracy what everyone will be happy living in peace and prosperity became one of the water places to live on earth the country is completely destroyed the society has been destroyed the infrastructure has been the destroyed five million people have been displaced and million people were killed. there is till this day in two thousand and twelve we still have very fragile political system. iraq is. very corrupt very dysfunctional one so unfortunately it's another example of the failure of installing a government system by us. to some other world news this the clock is ticking for the u.s.

so when they go she ations on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff again produced no results if the republicans and democrats fail to reach a deal on how to reduce the national deficit tax hikes and spending cuts worth billions of dollars automatically take effect on journey the first another round of talks is show deal for saturday barack obama is already considering an emergency bill from the werner's and unemployed if agreement is not reached before the deadline. the six men involved in the gang rape of a student in india have been charged with murder just hours after their victim died in hospital if convicted all could face the death penalty because sparked protests in new delhi with the authorities resorting to banning mass gatherings in parts of the city people still joining to express their anger while demanding extreme measures to keep the streets safe. the fans the newly elected prime minister has taken a tour of the fukushima nuclear plant which was devastated by a massive tsunami last year during

a protective suit action is or are being inspected the complex admitted that dealing with the fallout is an unprecedented challenge the previous democrat led government plan to scrap the use of nuclear power. they will participate in to reverse that decision. just a few days there for you to come up with your new year resolutions for twenty thirty forty years that resident is in new york to find out if people there are ready to make a commitment. it's that time of year again when we all make resolutions for the new year so what's your best this week let's talk about bet the same as always to lose weight lottery a rule looking forward to the mega millions that year so you're going to win the

lottery and you're going to lose weight and neither of these things are going to happen exactly could just be. kinder gentler and more giving how do you do that new york city i live in cincinnati i've been reading about i want to eat song going to do it this time and why didn't you eat better and twenty twelve no i mean i read a book about fasting fasting for two days a week so that's what i'm going to get that's not going to work here is russia lotion eat less muffins you know. to take care of myself better eat less muffin no muffins are great because i guess it gives the gym that's what it usually is which is unusual for a while. you're going to make the same one that you break. and you think a lot of people do that yeah i think so not to be so hard on myself joy life that's a good one it's kind of like the anti resolution more like i'm just going to relax a little bit saloon and that's probably when you can stick to your but why don't

you start now because i crave cigarettes a lot you still have them so you're going to smoke i'm yeah and then once you don't have any more throughout a current of cigarettes you're going to smoke your brains out until january first until january first that's it if you do decide to make a new year's resolution for two thousand and thirteen the bottom line is you're probably not going to keep it so why not just resolve to try to be a better you every day of the year happy new year. well max and stacey o'hare in just a couple of minutes with the kaiser report stay with us here not take.

well to the show this month high tech means good help whether it be the latest laser cutters or lifesaving heart valves russian innovators are working hard to keep you healthy for some companies it's been a winding road from car simulators to cutting edge streaming systems for others it's been a lifetime of work along the mysteries of the cell check it all on technology we've got the future.

i am asked eyes are welcome to the kaiser report in oh twenty two i was a year and watched the world suffered a major banker infestation anywhere you walked you stepped in banker fraud dropping stinking up the global economy. well we're going to talk about some ideas and stories that may actually help eradicate this unsanitary infestation problem stacy herbert yes max the banking rats are all over the place but their days may be numbered peer to peer lending boom could make banks obsolete the rise of peer to peer lender such as zopa and funding circle which directly match up for rooms in need of cash with investors and so-called crowd funding where small amounts are

resort a large number of funders will challenge the nation's major financial institutions according to andrew haldane the bank's director of financial stability of course well the internet which makes this possible has been highly disruptive to a number of different industries the banks have been caught doing all kinds of bad things so the market is taking the industry in a new direction getting rid of the middleman getting rid of the banks to offer appear to be peer lending schemes but you know the banks will fight it and the banks will fight it just like the hollywood fights the innovations and the content business and the copyright business so for example in hollywood still protect the monopoly positions of hollywood producers they have.